society
Example Sentences
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Emails reveal the wealthy taking proxy measures of one another’s yachts and villas, showboating their riches in ways that make Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities” look like a genteel glimpse into society mores.
But the prime minister faces a tough act balancing an ageing society reluctant to receive immigrants and an economy that would not sustain without them.
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He’s ruthless in deciding which rhetorical nerves to hit and when to keep society’s blessing for moving his visions forward.
It is about the importance to society of “obedience to the unenforceable”: “the obedience of a man to that which he cannot be forced to obey.”
“In an atomized society,” Ms. Liu observes, “where it’s easy to simply withdraw and isolate oneself, the crucial challenge was to do just the opposite: to reach out, reconnect, and rebuild community.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
